Can people with addiction change? Hanley Center, like all our drug and alcohol treatment programs, focuses on providing a clear path to a life of healing and restoration. Our compassionate team treats co-occurring physical and mental disorders using advanced neurological science to heal the brain and create a path to recovery. Hanley Center Clinical Director Deb Lynskey-Lake discusses how inspiring it is to see individuals who appear to be profoundly impacted by addiction find the courage to change.
"Even as therapists and people who have been in recovery and sponsors, we sometimes watch someone walk through the front door and we could say in the back of our minds, it's too much, they've gone through too many things, they're not going to get this. Most of the time what research teaches us is that we predict wrong - that the very people that we think are never going to change are actually the ones who surprise us and change. And what that means for us is that we have to have the intrinsic belief in people's ability to change."
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